A woman suffering from certain neurological disorder but treated for tuberculosis following wrong MRI scan reports, has been awarded a compensation of Rs 2.25 lakh.
NEW DELHI: A woman suffering from certain neurological disorder but treated for tuberculosis following wrong MRI scan reports, has been awarded a compensation of Rs 2.25 lakh by the State Consumer Commission as it held the scanning centre guilty for deterioration in her health.
"The only inference that can be drawn is that either the doctor at the scan centre did not possess such skill that was required to distinguish between images of different kinds of neurological disorders namely tuberculosis and selerosis or he was negligent in giving reports," the Commission said.
State Consumer Commission, President Justice J D Kapoor held the capital-based National MRI Scan Centre guilty for giving two consecutive wrong reports with regard to the disease of patient Pooja Manchanda.
Manchanda, actually suffering from selerosis -- a generalised disorder of connective tissues-- was administered anti-tuberculosis drugs for over three months on the basis of reports furnished by the scanning centre, resulting in the aggravation of her ailment.
The Commission, in a recent decision, dismissed an appeal of the Scanning Centre which had sought reversal of a district consumer forum order directing it to pay the compensation of Rs 3.20 lakh including the cost incurred by Manchanda during her treatment.
Manchanda, a resident of Mansarovar Garden in East Delhi, visited Kukreja hospital here on May three, 2005 and was advised to undergo MRI scan tests of her brain and spinal chord for detection of her ailment.
Based on the MRI Scanning Centre's reports, doctors had started treating her for tuberculosis, which had worsened her situation.
She, in August then, was forced to seek experts' opinion at AIIMS where to her utter shock was told that she was suffering from selerosis.
The Commission, rejecting the contention of the scanning centre could not be held liable for alleged wrong reports as it was an error of judgement case, relied upon AIIMS' doctors' reports, which stated that Manchanda was afflicted with selerosis not with tuberculosis as diagnosed earlier.
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